The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 26, 1917, Page 3, Image 3
"OX TO PETROGRA D."
Dispatch F>eclares (iernians are Iheparing
March on Russian Capital.
Petrograd, April 19.? (via London).
German preparations to attack
the northern front, supported by
a German fleet, reports of which appear
to be well founded, bear out the
/ war office warning recently issued
that the enemy means to march 011
to Petrograd. The preparations consist
of the massing of troops 011 the
Dvinsk Riga front and the concentration
of transports, warships and shallow
draft ships in Baltic seaports.
A portion of the German fleet is reported
to have moved from Kiel to
JLiDau.
It is regarded here as extremely
probable that the plan is to cut off
Petrograd from the active army. The
German efforts to spread discontent
in the Russian army have developed
an igneious device of loading shells
with copies of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's
reichstag speech of
March 29, and firing them into the
Russian lines.
Future Gasoline Supply.
The gasoline engine has now become
so essential in manufacturing
and in transportation that the possible
early exhaustion of our natural
supply of petroleum, the primary
source of the "gas," has become a
"burning question," and any data regarding
substitutes and possible
sources of supply are sought with
great interest. Bulletin 641-L of the
United States geological survey, department
of the interior, on "Oil Resources
of Black Shales of the Eastern
United States," by George H.
Ashley, just published, gives information
showing the richness and distribution
of certain shales which on
distillation will yield oil, gas ana
ammonia. The report gives the results
of tests by the bureau of mines
of samples of devonian and carboniferous
shales collected by the survey.
geologists at forty-two localities
in seven States east of the Mississippi,
and a rough estimate of the quantity
of oil that may be obtained by
the distillation of the available shale
in & part of this area. The yield of
oil from most of the samples examined
was small, averaging about
ten gallons per ton of shale?a yield
too low for commercial extraction under
conditions likely to arise in the
' near future. Nevertheless, the deposits
are of interest as indicating
the wide extent of shales of this
character. The richer beds may possibly
be utilized in the future in ways
or through processes not now foreseen.?Bulletin
of the Geological Survey.
A Bit of History.
When Premier Asquith took his
-?* fr>f enmnions on Au
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gust 5, 1914, Mr. Bonar Law, then
leading the opposition, immediately
> arose and said:
"May I ask the prime minister if
he has any information he can give
us today?"
The prime minister replied:
"Our ambassador at Berlin received
his passports at 7 o'clock last.evening,
and since 11 o'clock last night a
state of war has existed between Germany
and ourselves.'r
This use of the phrase "a state of
war" is not without interest just
now.?Chicago Evening Post.
The World's Oldest Map.
Postal routes of 3,500 years ago,
when the parcel post and the circulating
library already had been in existence
at least 800 years, are shown
on the world's oldest map, discovered
in the University museum's Nippur
tablets by Dr. Stephen Langdon,
the orientalist from Oxford university.
Announcement to this effect was
made by the museum recently, and
it was said that Dr. Langdon considered
the map not only the oldest, but
the best preserved that has come
down from antiquity. Dating about
1500 B. C., the map shows a survey
of the region about the temple oi
Nippur and indicates that the country
was under intensive cultivation.
Canals were numerous, serving for
irrigation and transportation. They
were the mail routes and a tag has
been found for a basket of "books"
or literary tablets sent from the li.
brary of' the Xippur temple to a
town about six miles distant. Shuruppek.
According to Babylonian tradition,
Noah lived at this town and
built the ark there. The tag was
used about 2300 B. C. The map
shows that a field belonging to the
king was smaller than that of the incantation
priests. A field of reeds
was open to the public. A large common
provided a grazing ground for
sheep and the villages were so close
? together that the shepherds could
hear the horn that, according to the
Hammurabi, was blown at a
ia??o vi
certain time of the year to stop the
grazing for a period.?Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Slender girls are given the preference
when applying for positions as
conductors on the Vienna street railways.
WAXTKl) UXCLE SAM TO PAY.
Gerard Discloses Facts Which Have
Been Kept From the Public.
Boston, April IS.?To show "the
deep hatred" which he asserted Germany
has held against the United
States, former Ambassador James \Y.
Gerard tonight disclosed facts which
he said had been kept from the American
people during the past two and
a half'years. He was the principal
speaker at a national defense dinner
given by the Pilgrim Publicity association.
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Tirpitz in thinly veiled statements
and the German reichstag and Prussian
parliament in open discussions
proposed the institution of an unrestricted
warfare against England
with intention "when England should
have been subcfued by hunger to come
over to the United States and collect
the price of the war from us."
Faith in German-Americans.
The former ambassador expressed
his belief that citizens of German
descent would prove loyal, but he
added, "if they do not stand with us,
I think we know where to festoon
them." .J
Mr. Gerard's statement that the
war would be a hard one was echoed
by Major Gen. Wood, who said:
"We have got to send a lot of men
across the sea, and we must bring
back a lot of men who died on the
other side. It will not be a paper
war. It will be war of living men,
and important as food, money and
munitions may be, men will be the
big factor."
.Major Gen. Wood said that "those
who are opposing President Wilson's
policy of universal obligatory military
service will be responsible for thousands
of lives if their arguments prevail."
Silver Market Factors.
Expectation that the silver mines
in the United States will make a
new record in output in the current
year is based upon the profitable
prices at which the white metal is
now being marketed and the strength
of the general situation because *of
the low supplies in China and India,
the relatively small production in
Mexico because of the political conditions,
'and the prospects that the
current heavy demand will run 011
for months. The Indian currency reserves
are well under those of a year
ago, and as currency issues are substantial
greater reason naturally exists
for t,he belief that government
purchases-of silver must continue in
volume. Business conditions in India
are unusually prosperous and
payments for labor are heavy. Such
payments are in silver rupees,
against which the government must
maintain large holdings of silver
metal to meet the paper money. The
London quotation on silver has advanced
from 32 1-4 pence in the latter
part of October to 36 pence at the
present time, which compares with
3 7-8 pence last May, when the
price was the highest in many years.
?Xew York Sun.
Remarkable Treatment for Burns.
Among the wounded on the battlefields
are soldiers with horrible burns
caused by bursting projectiles, liquid
fire, or scalding water. On the western
front the allies transport the
worst of these benefits of a new
treatment that has lately come to
public notice. In a few weeks, "living
corpses" almost without human
semblance, that enter the institution,
leave it without scars and more wonderful
still, with scarcely any visible
evidence of the torturous injuries
from which they have recovered. The
treatment, the discovery of a French
physician, is described in Popular Mechanics.
Next in importance to the
almost unbelievable results it accomplishes,
is the fact that it banishes
a patient's suffering within a few
hours. It is a painless cure for burns
of all kinds, including acid ones.
After being cleansed with warm water
and thoroughly dried with hot
air, an atomizer is used to spray the
burned flesh with a preparation composed
of parafin and resin, made
liquid by heating it to a temperature
of about 1">S degrees Fahrenheit.
This gives the wound a wax-like coating,
over which cotton batting is
laid in thin strips. The hot liquid
is then applied to the latter with a
brush, an air-tight sealing thus being
provided.
Just What He Wanted.
A wealthy old merchant had a
pretty daughter called Patience.
She had many suitors, but one more
daring than the others thought to
ask the father for her hand. He
went directly to the store and stood
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marking every now and then to the
old man. "1 beg pardon, sir. I want
a word with you."
"Ah! Will you have patience?"
said the merchant testily.
"With all my heart," replied the
young man. "'Tis for her I came."?
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